Optimal Foraging Theory: A Possible Role for Parasites

Behavioral decisions made under the risk of predation: a review and prospectus

1990 • 7,762 citations

Herbivores. Their Interaction with Secondary Plant Metabolites.

1981 • 1,990 citations

Optimal Behavior: Can Foragers Balance Two Conflicting Demands?

1980 • 892 citations

Influence of a predator on the optimal foraging behaviour of sticklebacks (Gasterosteus aculeatus L.)

1978 • 736 citations

Single nutrients and immunity

1982 • 522 citations

Tannins and Lignins

1991 • 463 citations

Current Perspectives in Primate Social Dynamics

1986 • 394 citations

A Determination of the Energetic Equivalence of the Risk of Predation

1989 • 384 citations

Foraging-efficiency-predation-risk trade-off in the grey squirrel

1985 • 361 citations

Use of nest material as insecticidal and anti-pathogenic agents by the European Starling

1985 • 298 citations

Observations on the illness and consumption of a possibly medicinal plantVernonia amygdalina (Del.), by a wild chimpanzee in the Mahale Mountains National Park, Tanzania

1989 • 258 citations

EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES OF MIMICRY IN SOME NORTH AMERICAN BUTTERFLIES: PART I. THE MONARCH,DANAUS PLEXIPPUS, AND VICEROY,LIMENITIS ARCHIPPUS ARCHIPPUS

1958 • 226 citations

The Use of Green Plant Material in Bird Nests to Avoid Ectoparasites

1984 • 221 citations

Experimental Studies of Mimicry in some North American Butterflies

1957 • 196 citations

Effects of the eyefluke, Diplostomum spathaceum, on the behaviour of dace (Leuciscus leuciscus)

1980 • 192 citations

Parasites and the Coexistence of Animal Host Species

1983 • 192 citations

Altered Evasive Behavior and Responses to Light in Amphipods Harboring Acanthocephalan Cystacanths

1973 • 192 citations

Effect of biologically active plants used as netst material and the derived benefit to starling nestlings

1988 • 182 citations

Increased vulnerability of amphipods to predation owing to altered behavior induced by larval acanthocephalans

1977 • 180 citations

Diet shifts in moose due to predator avoidance

1983 • 173 citations

Behavioural effects of the parasite Schistocephalus solidus (Cestoda) on an intermediate host, the three-spined stickleback, Gasterosteus aculeatus L.

1983 • 165 citations

Bioenergetics of Breeding Northern Shovelers: Diet, Nutrient Reserves, Clutch Size, and Incubation

1988 • 160 citations

Foraging success in junco flocks and the effects of social hierarchy

1981 • 157 citations

Optimal Foraging, Predation Risk and Territory Defence

2002 • 152 citations

Aspilia spp. Leaves: A puzzle in the feeding behavior of wild chimpanzees

1983 • 148 citations

Observations on the microbiology and biochemistry of the rumen in cattle given different quantities of a pelleted barley ration

1970 • 145 citations

Folate metabolism in malaria.

1977 • 120 citations

The impact of host nutrition on gastrointestinal helminth populations

1987 • 119 citations

Nutrient Reserves and the Energetics of Reproduction in American Coots

1985 • 110 citations

Interactions between oak tannins and parasite community structure: Unexpected benefits of tannins to cynipid gall-wasps

1987 • 110 citations

Behavioral and Morphological Changes in Carpenter Ants Harboring Dicrocoeliid Metacercariae

1969 • 110 citations

Feeding and Digestive Organ Size in Breeding Lesser Snow Geese

1977 • 110 citations

Parasites that Change the Behavior of their Host

1984 • 106 citations

Optimal foraging: The influence of intraspecific competition on diet selection

1982 • 105 citations

Parasites determine a predator's optimal feeding strategy

1984 • 104 citations

Correlation of Development of Altered Evasive Behavior in Gammarus lacustris (Amphipoda) Harboring Cystacanths of Polymorphus paradoxus (Acanthocephala) with the Infectivity to the Definitive Host

1974 • 103 citations

Predation risk and reduced foraging activity in fish: experiments with parasitized and non‐parasitized three‐spined sticklebacks, Gasterosteus aculeatus L.

1987 • 101 citations

Role of p-aminobenzoic acid in Plasmodium berghei infection in the mouse

1964 • 93 citations

Parasite-induced susceptibility to predation in diplostomiasis

1982 • 91 citations

Food Selection by Wood Ducks in Relation to Breeding Status

1979 • 75 citations

Food Use and Nutrition of Black Ducks Nesting in Maine

1980 • 75 citations

Sources of mortality for a cynipid gall-wasp (Dryocosmus dubiosus (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae)): The importance of the Tannin/Fungus interaction

1986 • 67 citations

Sarcocystis cernae: A parasite increasing the risk of predation of its intermediate host, Microtus arvalis

1987 • 66 citations

Synergism and Antagonism of Parasitic Diseases and Malnutrition

1982 • 49 citations

Parasite manipulation of host behaviour: acanthocephalans and shrimps in the laboratory

1986 • 46 citations

The effect of dietary crude protein level on intestinal and cecal coccidiosis in chicken.

1973 • 37 citations

Effect of host dietary constituents on intestinal pH and the migrational behavior of the rat tapeworm Hymenolepis diminuta

1971 • 37 citations

THE INFLUENCE OF SEX AND TREMATODE PARASITES ON CARRION RESPONSE OF THE ESTUARINE SNAIL ILYANASSA OBSOLETA

1985 • 37 citations

Dynamics of the Platyhelminth Fauna of Wood Ducks in Relation to Food Habits and Reproductive State

1983 • 36 citations

Living Together. The Biology of Animal Parasitism

1987 • 35 citations

Host diet as a determinant of parasite growth, reproduction and survival

1987 • 31 citations

Invertebrates consumed by dabbling ducks (Anatinae) on the breeding grounds.

1985 • 27 citations

Changes in Behaviour in the Intermediate Hosts of Trematodes

1962 • 27 citations

Interspecific dominance and the foraging behaviour of juncos

1985 • 27 citations

The effects of sex, age and diet of mice and gerbils on susceptibility to Microphallus pygmaeus (Digenea: Microphallidae)

1984 • 26 citations

Possible buccal administration of herbal drugs by wild chimpanzees, Pan troglodytes

1990 • 21 citations

Rat-dietary fructose and the intestinal distribution and growth of Moniliformis (Acanthocephala)

1983 • 19 citations

The influence of dietary cod liver oil and vitamin E upon Babesia rodhaini in mice

1957 • 18 citations

Chemotherapy of intestinal nematodes.

1973 • 15 citations

Effects of host dietary fructose on experimentally stunted Moniliformis (Acanthocephala)

1982 • 10 citations

Factors influencing the fecundity of Moniliformis moniliformis (Acanthocephala): constant dose and varied diet

1988 • 8 citations

CHEMOTHERAPY OF HYMENOLEPIASIS

1980 • 6 citations